An improvement over the first game in pretty much every way, however much like the original by the end of the game the difficulty reached a level of more annoyance than challenge, throwing more enemies than you have ammo to deal with without grinding bolts to get more weapons, causing me to have to run back to the store in between checkpoints just to have enough ammo for the other half.

Also I don't know if it's because I took a significant break near the end or what but the story felt like it suddenly just ends, like it's building up, there's a final reveal and then you blink and it's the credits and final cutscenes

I'm not familiar with the original, but I really enjoyed this remake. The survival mechanics encourage the use of a variety of weapons, most of the time I never felt overwhelmed by the difficulty on normal. My only gripe is, even with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3080, I still had performance issues that would crop up after only about 10 minutes of play, in the final 2 chapters the frame rate was basically nonexistant. As someone not familiar with the original I enjoyed my time with it and would recommend it.